29 December 2024 | My Artwork
It’s always nice to find time to create some Christmas art over the festive period. I’ve not actually had time for much art while I’ve been concentrating on getting my Frog’s Bucket List book published and so have been yearning to paint something for a while now. I...
26 October 2024 | Artist Studies, Mindfulness Art, My Artwork
Today I’ll be reminiscing on my visit to ‘Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience’ which was hosted in St Mary’s Church, York. This follows on from two previous posts about my York visit earlier this year – firstly, my York Sketches post and...
29 September 2024 | Artist Studies
A couple of months ago I was lucky enough to see one of Claude Monet’s water lily paintings, The Water-Lily Pond (1899), at the York Art Gallery. I wanted to share my experience and how it has inspired one of my own paintings. This blog follows on from my York blog:...
30 June 2024 | Life in Sketches, My Artwork
I have created some air plant paintings recently, so if you’re looking for some air plant inspired art then you’ve come to the right place. After three years and eight months of nurture, something wonderful happened – my Tillandsia decided to bloom and produce...
25 May 2024 | Artist Studies, My Artwork
In this blog I use a small but recent garden event to inspire a series of tulip paintings. I thought it would be interesting to study three different art movements in the process. Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism – and to compare the results to my own style. I am...